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Autor: alexus / dotcommon
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Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [Dng] straw poll, non-free firmware for installers
On 2015-06-03 13:43, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 05:24:30AM -0700, James Powell wrote:
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>> Should it be default added, no, but offered for choice? Absolutely.
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>
> But how far this should/will go? After having offered the possibility
> of bringing in non-free firmware during the installation, shall devuan
> also offer to install non-free drivers for your video card? And what
> about flash plugins then, or Skype? The "end user" might want to
> choose them, so should we offer her/him to install them?
>
> This was indeed the Ubuntu-way of dealing with non-free software, and
> I personally don't like it at all. I would rather prefer having a
> clear, neat and discernable separation between what is free software
> and what is not, as in Debian, and to have by default only free
> software available, with non-free stuff in a separate repo which
> requires separate and explicit setup to work.


Totally agree.
+1


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